[ANN/PIMP] Ruby Certificate Program @ University of Washington This Fall

[Ryan Davis]

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

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Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:

1. Basics

2. Language Summary
hello world
invoking methods (go see ri)
Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols
Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until

3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing

From here on out, the classes and homework will be
driven via tests:

All homework will have impl and tests where the student
needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
of (buggy) code without tests.

4. Language in More Detail
Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
More control flow
Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
break/redo/next/retry)
Exception handling

5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Classes
is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
Methods/messages
Modules
include/extend, when to use vs classes
Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work

6. Playing with Standard Libraries
Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
tcp chat server

7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
or self-driven project you'd rather.

8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining

9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
Hpricot - html/xml parser
Mechanize - web scraper

10. Playing Well with Others
Working with & contributing to the open-source community

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

-----

Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:

1. Basics

2. Language Summary
hello world
invoking methods (go see ri)
Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols
Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until

3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing

From here on out, the classes and homework will be
driven via tests:

All homework will have impl and tests where the student
needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
of (buggy) code without tests.

4. Language in More Detail
Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
More control flow
Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
break/redo/next/retry)
Exception handling

5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Classes
is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
Methods/messages
Modules
include/extend, when to use vs classes
Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work

6. Playing with Standard Libraries
Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
tcp chat server

7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
or self-driven project you'd rather.

8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining

9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
Hpricot - html/xml parser
Mechanize - web scraper

10. Playing Well with Others
Working with & contributing to the open-source community

Sounds fantastic!! How is this to be delivered? Electronically? Or must
one drive up to Seattle from, say, Portland?

 

[John Joyce]

Indeed, is it available on the net? If it is is it available
internationally?

Regardless, THIS along with the slew of Ruby (and Rails) books that
are pouring out of publishers this year goes a long way towards
pushing Ruby further into being taken seriously by more people.
Most excellent!
Syllabus looks good too!

 

[Ryan Davis]

Sounds fantastic!! How is this to be delivered? Electronically? Or
must
one drive up to Seattle from, say, Portland?

Sorry, but this is a classroom (only) based curriculum. I don't know
of any plans to make it electronically available at this time. Nor
would I want to teach that, I think.

 

[Robert Dober]

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3
quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then
rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all
three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make
this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is
interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

-----

Course syllabus for fall quarter is below:

1. Basics

2. Language Summary
hello world
invoking methods (go see ri)
Basic datatypes: string, range, numbers, regexps, symbols

--how did "datatypes" slip in ?

Control flow structures: if/unless/case/loop/while/until

3. Testing Concepts & Unit Testing

From here on out, the classes and homework will be
driven via tests:

All homework will have impl and tests where the student
needs to write tests for the impl and find any possible
bugs and write impl for the tests to make them pass. By
attacking on both sides, you'll get a better
appreciation for TDD and still have real world examples
of (buggy) code without tests.

4. Language in More Detail
Containers: Arrays, Hashes, Files... Enumerable
More control flow
Iterators & closures (incl syntax for x in y;
break/redo/next/retry)
Exception handling

5. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Classes
is-a vs. has-a, instances vs classes
Methods/messages
Modules
include/extend, when to use vs classes
Philosophical: do the simplest thing that could possibly work ++ breaking even already

6. Playing with Standard Libraries
Libraries (find, time, yaml, marshal)
RubyGems / RAA / rubyforge
tcp chat server

7. Projects Week 1: iTunes Data Mining, Inc.
or self-driven project you'd rather.

8. Projects Week 2: Student Driven
Regular Expressions, CSV, Data Mining

9. Projects Week 3: Extending by playing with Popular Libraries
Hpricot - html/xml parser
Mechanize - web scraper

10. Playing Well with Others

++ that really is surprising

Working with & contributing to the open-source community

Wish you lots of success.
Robert